Minor correction: the closest you can find to the paper used in currency is Cranes Crest Opaque Fluorescent White.
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And you do own a Mac right? So you can offer an honest opinion of it, right?
So wait, are you saying what he says isn't true? Or that it is true, but he doesn't own a Mac and therefore has no right to speak? Do you have an actual counter argument to offer, or just snide insinuations?
Which one of them will be doing all of the crazy sound effects? And what about the crazy gun nut? "Tackleberry!"
On a more sobering note, I find it deeply disturbing that I was able to remember this much about Police Academy, at a moment's notice.
You know, I think we're all deeply embarassed here, because we knew exactly what you were talking about. My personal shame is vividly remembering the movie where Tackleberry gets married and drives away from the ceremony in a bigfoot-style monster truck dragging 55 gallon drums instead of cans behind it.
first thing that came to mind
"They're tiny, they're toony,
they're all a little loony"
Yeah, same here. You know, I think it's one of those classic cases of Bad Hollywood Thinking. In this case it's an amusing parallel to bad tech patents. Instead of "do same old process [x]....with a computer!", these guys pitch concepts that go along the lines of "same old worn out show idea [x].....with kids*!" Honestly, this is a sure sign of Grasping At Straws, or perhaps Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel. It basically shows that the pitcher can think of no particularly creative expansion of the existing canon. Being that this is Ol' Bill Shatner, the theory probably holds.
* the usual vehicle for this is animation, in the form a a children's cartoon. Small rotund caricatures of the adult show's charaters engage in child-friendly activities.
You probably have a nice stack of "blank money" you just bought at Staples for just this purpose!
Yeah, this Crane's Crest Opaque White paper is for my resume! I would NEVER use it to print MONEY.
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So what exactly does the theft of books from libraries have to do with:
a) Amazon's selling of used books depriving the author's of collecting revenue.
b) Amazon saying that it shouldn't collect state taxes because it gets no police services.
Not a damn thing. Like you say, the dumbass was looking for some way to denounce Amazon and Bezos. Also, he probably thought he'd finally found a good way to use the word "irony".
it would be a relatively subtle thing to figure out whether nonsubscribers can read the article or not.
Bah! Subtle my eye! It's trivial to run your links through an anonymizer to ensure full public access is allowed. Of course, doing this would constitute effort, and it's abundantly clear that/. editors avoid that at all cost...
instead of mindlessly breaking open rare fossils looking for soft tissue as suggested by Dr. Schweitzer?
Neither MRI nor X-Ray can differentiate between minute amounts of fossilized tissue and minute amounts of UNfossilized tissue. The issue is not whether it exists at all, but whether it is somewhat intact. Besides, surely the process of looking inside would require no more than drilling a couple small holes. "Breaking open" makes it sound like they want to pull down reconstructed skeletons and start swinging sledgehammers.
I'm slightly skeptical. The article talks about soft tissue, but none of the scientists even try to explain how soft tissue could have survived for seventy million years?
FWIW the "soft tissue" is probably no longer soft. It's not beyond the realm of possibility for dried out soft tissue to remain undisturbed encased in bone.
Distributing software without permission violates federal copyright and possibly patent laws and thus is criminal.
Patent violation is not criminal. Only Copyright violation. And since this guy didn't appropriate any methods for use in his own software and then sell them, I don't see why you're even bringing up patents in the first place.
They're always protecting their R&D investment. And while the young and restless will snicker, it really taught me a lesson about respecting other people's hard work.
Did you really learn that lesson from being threatened?
I wonder if being an idiot is adequate defese against the ??AA's of the world?
No, but we all know that the MPAA/RIAA/BSA isn't going to kick down doors over half a copy of Diablo II, and you'd pretty much have to prove your cluelessness if there's 50gigs of warez on your otherwise empty 60gig FTP server. Really, the law isn't as stupid as you people seem to think. For the most part, you'll never be able to get away with egregious violations by pleading ignorance. The law sets the rules, but it allows for a lot of latitude in judging culpability within those rules. You really can't exploit "technicalities" like that. If you're obviously guilty as fuck, but say "I didn't know", the (judge/jury) isn't going to snap their fingers and say "damn, now we can't find you guilty"; no, they're going to say "lying sack of shit, get thee to the state pen".
"Honest, your honor, I just set up a Windows box as a FTP server for my stamp club, I have no idea where these movies came from!!!"
For what it's worth, it was an old UMAX Mac clone running Linux.
The rights you have, as pertaining to the iTMS, are outlined in the EULA that is activated when a copy of iTunes is installed on a computer.
False. The rights you have are outlined by federal copyright law, not a EULA. No amount of EULA shennanigans nullifies the First Sale Doctrine. Feel free to argue the technical applicability of First Sale, but stop assigning powers to copyright holders which copyright law does not grant them in the first place.
If an organization duly authorized by the copyright owner to help manage their copyrights places a copy of the copyrighted material on a public warez server, it seems to me that this legally qualifies as free public distribution by the copyright owner.
Don't be daft. Being hired to investigate violations of copyright doesn't give someone the free reign to hand out copyrighted material. "While on their payroll" doesn't mean the same thing as "with their permission".
a former co-worker of mine had a machine exploited in such a fashion. it became a hub for trading shows of cedric the entertainer.
I set up an FTP server once and inadvertently gave "guest:guest" full rights. The few days later there were a bazillion levels of weirdly named nested directories, and at the bottom were directories with names like "games" and "movies". Since there was nothing else on that box to exploit, I figured I'd let them upload me some movies and games. Three days later they'd got about half of Diablo II and I got tired of waiting and locked them out. Lazy bums.
You'll never get below ambient temperature with an aircooled heatsink.
He didn't say "air cooled", he just said "heatsink". A heatsink is simply an object that maintains a cooler temperature and draws out heat. It could very well be using refrigeration to do this.
Translation: everyone who disagrees with me is not only wrong, but also evil.
Heh. That sounds like one of theose weird MMPI2 questions. Like "I would have been more successful if people didn't have it in for me", or "Everything is coming true just like the bible said it would".
It's just the height of pretension to call such a collection an encyclopedia of facts.
It's the height of pretension to imply that there can even be an encyclopedia of pure facts. "Point of view" is inherent in any encyclopedia. The best that can be said is that the presenter made an effort to stay neutral. In cases where there are multiple competing opinions and no amount of arguing is going to make either side give up, the best you can do is factually represent both opinions. If one side is supported by scientific evidence, and the other by blind faith, then so long as this is made known the article is factually correct.
Babies from different countries "talk" the same up to a certain age, if everyone's thoughts were different as you assume surely they would all talk differently
Babies aren't "speaking" their thoughts. Babies don't talk. What you hear is crude vocalizations, determined primarily by the physical shape of the equipment. There are no specific thoughts attached to those noises, any more than their spasmodic leg kicking and arm waving are "walking" and "reaching". There is no universal language of thought, and no one is ever going to invent a "baby translator" either.
DMCA or any other copyright law doesn't matter here -- in fact, the illegality of this is in a body of law far more simple than intellectual property: contracts.
There is, however, a significant difference between mere "breach of contract" and "pound me in the ass at $1000 per track DMCA violation". In the former, they can essentially only file a civil suit and recover actual damages. The latter they can send the FBI in to drag you away while their goons tear your house apart.
most of the bike-car collisions I've seen/heard about couldn't be avoided by being able to accelerate or go faster:
What kind of accidents have you "seen/heard about"? The most common 2-vehicle motorcycle accidents I've seen (and been in!) were leg breaking sideswipe and T-boner left turners. The only thing that will save you from that is braking (hope no one's behind you) or acceleration.
if that was the case there would be no accidents involving high performance road bikes, right?
No, that assumes sport bikes have infinite acceleration, which they do not. You see, the bikes that did have enough acceleration avoid the accident! Now, a proper comparison would be whether wimpy little bikes with no acceleration get into more 2-vehicle accidents than big sport bikes.
I know a person who got a ticket for having a loud stereo, which pales in comparison to the sound of a Harley.... yet a Harley can drive up my street at 2 AM and not be considered a problem, while this person was on the way to work in the morning and got ticketed because the windows were down in the car and the cop could hear the music. What a f*cked up society we live in.
Personally, I'd like to see both the 2AM fuckwit yuppie straight-pipe-equipped Harley riders and the 7AM loud stereo with the windows down "EVERYONE will now enjoy my shitty music" dickheads get ticketed. Neither act of excessive noise generation is excusable. Fucked up (and self cetered) society indeed.
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I dunno, it seems like "rediculous" gives it a run for the money.
'Aaaagh! Aaaaggghhh! OK, OK, it's 'melon'!'
tacatacatacatacACCESS DENIED
'Aaaaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhh!'
Caps Lock! I always enter it with Caps lock on!
Minor correction: the closest you can find to the paper used in currency is Cranes Crest Opaque Fluorescent White.
So wait, are you saying what he says isn't true? Or that it is true, but he doesn't own a Mac and therefore has no right to speak? Do you have an actual counter argument to offer, or just snide insinuations?
You know, I think we're all deeply embarassed here, because we knew exactly what you were talking about. My personal shame is vividly remembering the movie where Tackleberry gets married and drives away from the ceremony in a bigfoot-style monster truck dragging 55 gallon drums instead of cans behind it.
"They're tiny, they're toony,
they're all a little loony"
Yeah, same here. You know, I think it's one of those classic cases of Bad Hollywood Thinking. In this case it's an amusing parallel to bad tech patents. Instead of "do same old process [x]....with a computer!", these guys pitch concepts that go along the lines of "same old worn out show idea [x].....with kids*!" Honestly, this is a sure sign of Grasping At Straws, or perhaps Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel. It basically shows that the pitcher can think of no particularly creative expansion of the existing canon. Being that this is Ol' Bill Shatner, the theory probably holds.
* the usual vehicle for this is animation, in the form a a children's cartoon. Small rotund caricatures of the adult show's charaters engage in child-friendly activities.
Yeah, this Crane's Crest Opaque White paper is for my resume! I would NEVER use it to print MONEY.
Not a damn thing. Like you say, the dumbass was looking for some way to denounce Amazon and Bezos. Also, he probably thought he'd finally found a good way to use the word "irony".
Bah! Subtle my eye! It's trivial to run your links through an anonymizer to ensure full public access is allowed. Of course, doing this would constitute effort, and it's abundantly clear that /. editors avoid that at all cost...
Neither MRI nor X-Ray can differentiate between minute amounts of fossilized tissue and minute amounts of UNfossilized tissue. The issue is not whether it exists at all, but whether it is somewhat intact. Besides, surely the process of looking inside would require no more than drilling a couple small holes. "Breaking open" makes it sound like they want to pull down reconstructed skeletons and start swinging sledgehammers.
FWIW the "soft tissue" is probably no longer soft. It's not beyond the realm of possibility for dried out soft tissue to remain undisturbed encased in bone.
Patent violation is not criminal. Only Copyright violation. And since this guy didn't appropriate any methods for use in his own software and then sell them, I don't see why you're even bringing up patents in the first place.
Did you really learn that lesson from being threatened?
No, but we all know that the MPAA/RIAA/BSA isn't going to kick down doors over half a copy of Diablo II, and you'd pretty much have to prove your cluelessness if there's 50gigs of warez on your otherwise empty 60gig FTP server. Really, the law isn't as stupid as you people seem to think. For the most part, you'll never be able to get away with egregious violations by pleading ignorance. The law sets the rules, but it allows for a lot of latitude in judging culpability within those rules. You really can't exploit "technicalities" like that. If you're obviously guilty as fuck, but say "I didn't know", the (judge/jury) isn't going to snap their fingers and say "damn, now we can't find you guilty"; no, they're going to say "lying sack of shit, get thee to the state pen".
"Honest, your honor, I just set up a Windows box as a FTP server for my stamp club, I have no idea where these movies came from!!!"
For what it's worth, it was an old UMAX Mac clone running Linux.
False. The rights you have are outlined by federal copyright law, not a EULA. No amount of EULA shennanigans nullifies the First Sale Doctrine. Feel free to argue the technical applicability of First Sale, but stop assigning powers to copyright holders which copyright law does not grant them in the first place.
Don't be daft. Being hired to investigate violations of copyright doesn't give someone the free reign to hand out copyrighted material. "While on their payroll" doesn't mean the same thing as "with their permission".
I set up an FTP server once and inadvertently gave "guest:guest" full rights. The few days later there were a bazillion levels of weirdly named nested directories, and at the bottom were directories with names like "games" and "movies". Since there was nothing else on that box to exploit, I figured I'd let them upload me some movies and games. Three days later they'd got about half of Diablo II and I got tired of waiting and locked them out. Lazy bums.
He didn't say "air cooled", he just said "heatsink". A heatsink is simply an object that maintains a cooler temperature and draws out heat. It could very well be using refrigeration to do this.
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Heh. That sounds like one of theose weird MMPI2 questions. Like "I would have been more successful if people didn't have it in for me", or "Everything is coming true just like the bible said it would".
It's the height of pretension to imply that there can even be an encyclopedia of pure facts. "Point of view" is inherent in any encyclopedia. The best that can be said is that the presenter made an effort to stay neutral. In cases where there are multiple competing opinions and no amount of arguing is going to make either side give up, the best you can do is factually represent both opinions. If one side is supported by scientific evidence, and the other by blind faith, then so long as this is made known the article is factually correct.
Babies aren't "speaking" their thoughts. Babies don't talk. What you hear is crude vocalizations, determined primarily by the physical shape of the equipment. There are no specific thoughts attached to those noises, any more than their spasmodic leg kicking and arm waving are "walking" and "reaching". There is no universal language of thought, and no one is ever going to invent a "baby translator" either.
There is, however, a significant difference between mere "breach of contract" and "pound me in the ass at $1000 per track DMCA violation". In the former, they can essentially only file a civil suit and recover actual damages. The latter they can send the FBI in to drag you away while their goons tear your house apart.
What kind of accidents have you "seen/heard about"? The most common 2-vehicle motorcycle accidents I've seen (and been in!) were leg breaking sideswipe and T-boner left turners. The only thing that will save you from that is braking (hope no one's behind you) or acceleration.
if that was the case there would be no accidents involving high performance road bikes, right?
No, that assumes sport bikes have infinite acceleration, which they do not. You see, the bikes that did have enough acceleration avoid the accident! Now, a proper comparison would be whether wimpy little bikes with no acceleration get into more 2-vehicle accidents than big sport bikes.
Personally, I'd like to see both the 2AM fuckwit yuppie straight-pipe-equipped Harley riders and the 7AM loud stereo with the windows down "EVERYONE will now enjoy my shitty music" dickheads get ticketed. Neither act of excessive noise generation is excusable. Fucked up (and self cetered) society indeed.